Scientists have discovered the real reason turtles have shells. While many thought turtle shells were for protection, new findings show that the shells were actually for digging underground to escape …read more Source:: Science
Day: July 15, 2016
Pyston and PyPy chart different courses to a faster Python
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What’s the best way to achieve the dream of a fast and fleet Python implementation? Depends on whom you’re asking. If you’re Dropbox, creators of the burgeoning Pyston project, you …read more Source:: OpenSource
Infants prefer toys typed to their gender, says study
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•Children as young as 9 months-old prefer to play with toys specific to their own gender, according to a new study. The research suggests the possibility that boys and girls …read more Source:: Science
Happy cows make more nutritious milk
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•Daily infusions with a chemical commonly associated with feelings of happiness were shown to increase calcium levels in the blood of Holstein cows and the milk of Jersey cows that …read more Source:: Science
Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
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•A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team. …read more Source:: Science
City birds again prove to be angrier than rural birds
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•New observations on urban versus rural birds shed light on the effects of human population expansion on wildlife, say authors of a new report. . …read more Source:: Science
Key to regulating cell’s powerhouse discovered
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•Aging, neurodegenerative disorders and metabolic disease are all linked to mitochondria, structures within our cells that generate chemical energy and maintain their own DNA. In a fundamental discovery with far-reaching …read more Source:: Science